message through art. In this case though‚ Hairspray has been the selected piece I’m choosing to write about. It is considered to be a flashy‚ catchy‚ musical that ultimately hits on racial segregation and inequality. In this paper‚ I will be covering different material ranging from the actual background story of the musical‚ the themes the musical is trying to convey‚ information on John Waters (the man who started it all)‚ some elements of set design‚ and the overall influence Hairspray has had
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Shout! The Musical Analysis Shout! The Mod Musical gives a good performance that portrays the atmosphere and events of the ‘60s in Britain. The crew employ a variety of means to achieve this. Voice overs are used to inform the audience of what the character is reading. The play uses the magazine Shout! to explore social elements of that time. Each of the characters are a young woman dressed in a different colour to reflect her personality. They are referred to as Blue Girl‚ Green Girl‚ Red Girl
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BatBoy the Musical by Keythe Farley and Brian Fleming was very strange. I can’t decide if I liked it’s storyline. It was about a boy who is half human‚ half bat‚ which had been chronicled in Weekly World News and had been discovered in the West Virginia Hills. He had been brought to the town of Hope Falls‚ which brought fear and intrigue to the folks of the town. The Sheriff thought that it was only Dr. Parker who would know what to do with him‚ so he brought him to the Parker Family. The Parkers
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Shayla Smith Period 4 4/7/16 A beautiful musical put together by a Christian K-12 school. So beautiful‚ so amazing. Full of beautiful actors and singers. A very precise performance with expert actors and actresses. Amazing voices came from the mouths of these young kids. The costumes were amazing and accurately portrayed for the play and each character. Because they were apart of an orphanage and very poor their costumes were raggedy and old and used. Yet‚ even though the costumes weren’t
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Historical Timeline of Musical Theatre Renaissance The antecendents of musical theatre in Europe can be traced back to the theatre of ancient Greece‚ where dance and music were included in stage comedies and tragedies during the 5th century BCE. The 3rd-century BCE Roman comedies of Plautus included song and dance routines performed with orchestrations. The Romans also introduced technical innovations. For example‚ to make dance steps more audible in large open air theatres‚ Roman actors attached
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Levinson defines a musical work as a dual structure‚ sound and means of performance (S/PM)‚ as "indicated" by a person at some time. An "indicating" takes the form of the creation of a score by a composer. He writes that certain attributes of musical works are dependent on more than the sound structure they contain‚ this is what makes musical works different from each other. Musical works are not only sound structures but rather they are an integration of sound structures and performance. Levinson
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Musical theatre can be a great tool for teachers as it can help teach a variety of skills and provide information. However‚ musical theatre is often ignored in the classroom. This is not only a fault of people with distaste for theatre‚ but also lovers of theatre. As David Savran says‚ “And even for many devotees of the so-called straight theatre‚ musical theatre remains (at best) a guilty pleasure-a little too gay‚ too popular‚ too Jewish‚ and too much damned fun” (216). This blockage between
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for me to define my personality. Who am I? What events in my life influenced the person that I am today? Well I guess it started when I was born. The first few seconds that I peaked my head out of my mother ’s womb into a huge place I now call "the world". I was in a room with people surrounding me and caring for my every need; such as cutting my umbilical cord‚ cleaning my body of amniotic fluid‚ and bonding with this woman that I now call "mommy". These first few moments in my life had a major
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My life started with my long and hard birth on July 14‚ 1993. I came into the world with a large scream and was immediately placed into some sort of category. The doctors and nurses took a quick look at me‚ and pronounced me as a girl. This social label of being a girl was now my gender‚ which is something I had no say in. Every since that very moment in time where my parents were told I was a girl‚ I have been treated according to my gender. This meant that my parents automatically dressed me in
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businessmen who have written autobiographies. Both texts‚ which are small parts about their school life‚ have different tones and structure but therefore share the type of audience. The readers of Churchill’s and Iacocca’s autobiographies would be businessmen who are seeking for inspiration from others who have had success. Additionally the audience could consist of students who have trouble in school or are researching about past Politicians. Text 1 is from “An Autobiography” from Lee Iacocca. He describes
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